Mission from Zython
Description
When an unidentified flying object makes a sudden landing in a field nearby a military base; a father and son take several photos. Before long, they are visited by an alien being commanding that they release the pictures into his custody.
A creature who calls himself Rotar first lands near the Iowa farm of John Bergstrom. Young Ralph demands both film and camera after paralyzing the elder Bergstrom with a low-level electrical charge from his eyes. Then he explains his mission: the destruction of all atomic warheads because those that have already been exploded have polluted the atmosphere of his planet, Zython, even though it’s millions of miles from Earth.
A mysterious spacecraft crashes in a field close to an army base, and a dad and his boy snap some pictures of it. Soon after, an alien shows up and demands they hand over the photos.
CBS Radio Mystery Theater is a radio drama series created by Himan Brown that was broadcast on CBS Radio Network affiliates from 1974 to 1982, and later in the early 2000s was repeated by the NPR satellite feed. In New York City it was not aired by the then all-news WCBS but by its originating station, WOR, which produced and announced it as simply Radio Mystery Theater.
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